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No Respect for Lycos

May 18, 2000 09:05 AM

Larry Dignan: Why can't Lycos be acquired in peace? After shopping itself
around for more than a year, Lycos did the right thing and made shareholders fat and happy. Of course, the portal gets no thanks for being acquired by Terra
Networks for $12.5 billion. Analysts started nit-picking instantly. href="http://www.zdii.com/industry_list.asp?mode=news&doc_id=ZE504247&pic=Y">Not even a 40 percent premium can buy Lycos respect.

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